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FRIDAY, MAY RIB 1869.
Igr REPUBLICANI COUNTY
CONVENTION.
The Republican voters of Ileghenv coun
are requested to meet at the %Meal places for
olding elections in the several wards, boroughs
3 d townships, on
SATURDAY, MAY 291 h, 1869,
And elect delegates from each election district to
each of the three following Conventions, viz:
Two delegates from each to the COUNTY CON
VENTION, for the purpose of nominating candi
dates for Sheriff Recorder, Register. Treasurer,
Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Clerk of
the Orphans' Court and Commissioner.
Two other elegatts from each to the LEGIS
LATIVE C NVENTION, for the purpose of
, • nominating o e candidate for State Senator, for
one year, to 1 the unexpired term of Ressell
Zrrett, rev ed, and six candidates for Assem
bly. And
Twit other delegates from each to the JUDI
CIAL CONVENTION, to nominate one mind!-
' 'date for Judge' f the District Court, and one can
didate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
and elect eight delegates to represent the county
in the Republican State Convention.
These Conventions will severally meet, in the
city of Pittsburgh, on
TUESDAY. JUNE 1, 1869, •
AS 1/ o'clock A. Sc., at the following places: -
The COUNTY CONVENTION will meet at the
COURT HOUSE. .
The LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION wilt met t
at CITY HALL, on Market street. And
. The JUDICIAL CONVENTION will meet
in MASONIC HALL, on Filth avenue, between
Wood and Smithikeld streets.
The election of delegates will be held between
the hours of 4and 7 o'clock r, Sc., and will be
held, as far as practicable, by the Republican
Members of thf election bOards in the several
districts; and in those distriets where the Repub
lican election officers are a minority of the regu
lar election boards, the said officers are author
ised to appoint enough additional officers to com
plete the board.
The voting in the cities and boroughs shall, in
all cues, be by ballot, and In the townships by
marking. .
The President oreach Convention will appoint
a Committee of three, the three Committees thus
appointed to meet together, as soon as practica
ble after the adjournment of. the Conventioiks,
and appoint a County Committee for the ensuing
year.
By order of the County Committee.
RUSSELL ERRETT, Chairman
JOHR EL ST:SWART, Secretary.
WE PRINT on the inside pages of
•this morning's Gearrim—Second page:
Poetry—" Hymn of Peace," Ephemeris,
Pennsylvania State items, Clippings.
Third page : Elver News, _Financial,
Commercial. Markets, Imports. Sixth
Paqe: Finance and_ Trade, New York
Money. Market. Seventh page: Notices of
New Publications, and Amusement Di- -
rectory.
U. S. BONDS at. Frankfort, 843{1843
PETROLEUM 'at Antwerp, 48; f.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 143i@)1.431.
BOLTING is the Commercial's best hold.
It bolted with Andrew Johnson in '65-
'66, and has ever since been trying to
sneak back_ irito the Republican cond
. deuce, to perpetrate fresh treacheries.
Fortunately, it has not persuaded the Re
publicans of Allegheny to forget its dis
creditable record.
• Tau call for D. N. Wurrx, Esq., to al
low his name to be presented as one of
the number to represent Allegheny county
in the. next Legislature, appears in to
day's paper. It will be seen that Mr.
Warn accepts the offer, and is willing
thit his name shall be used. It would be
useless for us to add anything in behalf
of this gentleman, as he is known to he
among the very best men in our county,
and, we assure onz friends that no better
selection could be Made.
WHAT is the precise standard of Com
seercial "Indifference ?" It was very
low at Greensburg a few years ago,
and since then has been steadily sinking,
We fear it is now too far beneath re
spectable criticism for any quotation.
That must be an utterly disreputable
ticket whieh shall come below the Cotn
mereias political grade. That journal
has been for many years an offense to
the nostrils of all - respectable politicidns
of either the &publican, Democratic or
Johnson parties, but until deodorized it
can do harm to none.
Own cAer form al revolting idea of the
lowest depths of political turpitude, when
they see such traitors as the Jonneow
:negates of '6B, in Western Pennsyl
vania, declining' the still lower disgrace
of a public affiliation with the Pittsburgh
Commercial. There are grades even in
political treachery; and the offer of that
print to prostitute its columns fora little
dlity pelf,. was more than even the
Cowen could stomach. Its rejection
proved that. they had a still lingering
gleam of "elf -respect. And yetthia Com
mercial now prates of the honesty of can
didates.
IT is three years since the Pittsburgh
Conunercial offered to sell its pretended
&Publican principles, a dear bargain for
the cheapest of prices, to the corporal's
guard of skedaddle= and renegades who
then managed, as they in fact composed,
the Johnson party in Western Pennsyl
vania. What it wanted in return was
the "official patronage" of that meanest
of all adtainistratim. Even A. J.'s
fugle-mesCooukl i!ot see any profit in .
:(gr~s:.~~:~: M~.: ;~!.75.:~ y
the Proposition, and turned up their
noses at it in &grist. since then, the
Commercial's political value has, if it
were possible, deteriorated still lower.
Tze Pittsburgh Commercial ot the 19th,
; quotes approvingly the declaration of
a Philadelphia print, that if the Con
ventions nominate'; "bad or indifferent
candidates, they must provide 'cor their
election without its aid." Our -Conven
tions sit on a June Tuesday. It must be
Wednesday before l our Repub li cans are
to know if the Commercial regards their
ticket as "Indifferent" ---and so unworthy
of its support. This would be bad, were
it not for the general understanding that
the Commercial will still try to damns a good
turn,
_in promoting the election of the
ticket by its own immediate bolt.
IT Is scarcely necessary to mention, in
this community, that the Commercial,
which has for years amused our Republi
can friends with its pretensions to a Re
publican positiork,, is now, and has for
some time pastltz, edited by a gentle
man of the most tra DemocratiC poli-
tics. The same gentleman edits the Sun
day Leader. Whether in the Commercial's
"Republicanism" (!) or in the Leader's
"independence" (1l) the venomous rattle
of his Democratic instincts is never wholly
concealed. He has a right to his political
opinions, but the Republicans of Alleghe
ny are entitled to a clear understanding
of his true motives under whatever dis
guise.
THE Commercial "ventures to say"-
that the opposition bases its hope of suc
cess, at the October polls, "upon the pros
pect that the Republican Conventions will
endorse those officials who have brought
the party into disrepute." About as near
the mark as you would expect, from a
quasi Republican journal edited by the
most venomous of Democratic partizans.
No matter what nominations our Con
ventions shall make, the merest tyro in
politics clearly foresees that the opposition
will denounce the ticket as corrupt.
Whether our men shall be good or bad,
they will be assailed as unsound in per
sonal and political morality—and the
Commercial will be quoted as authority
- therefor. It Is out of the question to ex
pect that we can nominate any candidate
whatever, who shall escape the sweeping
imputations of the opposition press, based
upon the stupid or malicious assertions of
thati sham-Republican newspaper. Its
policy has been to set the 'prairie in an
undiscriminating blaze, to destroy alike
the innocent and the guilty. That is
what the opposition rely upon. Let us
rejoice that the Commerekl has shown its
true colors at last--bolting the nomina
tions in advance.
THE LAKE SUPERIOR IRON 'IRA DE.
As an evidence of the vast proportions
of this -comparatively new source of pro
duction, we find - the following statement
of the export of pig iron and iron ore
from the single port of Escanaba, from the
opening of navigation, which occurred
about the 10th of. April, to the 11th of
May, instant —a period of one month:
Deitlns, Iron Ore. Pig Iron,
Vessel. lion. Tons. Ton..
.David Morris.-- Erie 509
Truesda'e........ Ch c.agor... 300
Exchange........ Cleveland . 195
Brigntle Erie 936
Esc,. naba eleveian4. 806
Buckingham Ch I . c . ago .... 400
J. F. Card
500
J. B. Wilber • • Erie 464
T. Brown' Cleveland. 950
C. P. Minch 702
New Lo d on ..
430
Oak Lea . , .... .... IA 500
•
J.- W. N tho:a.... " 540
Jura. ... i. 421
Pride Green Bay. 123
D. Wagstaff Erie 41114
W. W. Arnold... Cleveland. 647
Chas. Wan Erie 1,118
Neesonee Cleveland. 1,614
S. H. Kimball... Erie NH
Washington Chicago.... Bo
De Soto Cleveland. 601
A. E. Hart 660
Harvest Home—. Detroit ... -NM
Monitor ' ..•
6.xlie • Clevelan d. 484
Gen. Sherman... •II 038
S. JA. Wood Erie
Stara' t tie Hort 1. Chicago.... 344
12.'11.. Blake • .... 311
C.J. Magill Cleveland . 601 .
Sarnaw.... ...... Green Bay. 60
Anna Henry Chicago.— 346
Naonle El . 's ..... ... /AI
8. S. Osborn
Jane Bell Buffalo 400
Algerlxe •6
154 •
Total 37 vessels and cargoes .. 17.590 2.004
It will be observed, that Erie, Pa.:re
ceiveli one-fourth of , the entire eziort,
and Cleveland, Ohio, nearly one-half.
Most of the iron ore for Eric is doubtless
intended for the anthracite furnaces in
the interior of the State, eia Philadelphia
& Erie Railroad. The revolition which
these rich ores of Lake Superior is quietly
but rapidly developing, is remarkable;
none the less remarkable is the fact'that
our vast coal-fields can attract from Mar
the rich mineral of Ittichigtm. In the
union of Pennsylvania coal with Lake
Snperioriron ore, wherever accomplished,
there is wealth. The "coming man"
will see companies organized "with the
view of effecting this union, by rail and
water, both in Michigan and In Pennsyl
vania. These thirty or forty vessels
should not have been allowed to return
to the Bay cle tioquet in ballast, but
shotdd have carried a return cargo of
Pennsylvania coal, to find a ready and
remunerative market on the iron shores
of the Peninsula. We are glad to learn
that an arrangement of that sort is al
ready on foot.
DRUNISEDoIuT AT LAST.
For years past the Republicans of Al
legheny county have borne as patiently as
they might, with the trickeries, incon
sistencies, stupidities, and not seldom
the mischievous treacheries, more or less
successfully concealed, of a pretended Re
publican journal of this city. Its hyp o .
crisy was always patent, and its vezugity
has been a daily notoriety. A.dherkrg
but in name to our party organization, it
has omitted no opportunity for commit
ting some palpable blunder, .tuiless It
rather preferred to improve the occasion
with *Ma .blaldi9o4
PITTSBURGH G.MTTE
principles, or at their Well earned as
cendency in this county. It never Wil
lingly did any good service to the party ;
it never suggested an argument • or
led public sentiment with an use
ful idea ; it has yielded no aid
whatever in any of our battles, and
was never counted among the number of
those who faithfully and effectively up
held here the banner of sound political
opinion. Altogether a negative quantity,
when work was to be done, or help was
required, in the way of promoting the
triumph of those opinions, it has with
equal uniformity, and with far greater
success, stood always ready tor some cor
rupt prostitution of its nominal position,
selling out its types and its osteii-
Bible principles with equal alac
rity to the highest bidder for
its "most sweet voice" Because it
was too stuped to do us any good, was
merely the generally accepted proof that
its management had neither brains nor
sagacity; but, because it was as notori
ously and corruptly venal, was admitted,
by the same general consent, to be an
ample evidence of its entire destitution of
any honest principle whatever. We
could forgive its blunders, because no
one deserves censure for being deficient
in wit; but no honest and Intel
ligent citizen - of this county has
ever been able to speak of its
shamelessly mercenary conduct, without
a feeling of pity— not wholly free from
contempt. It is altogether needless, in
this community, to add that we refer to
the Pittsburgh Covanierciak Every one
recognizes the original of our rudely
sketched picture., We have, very fortu
nately, in this old Republican strong
hold, but one newspaper to fur that bill
—and the Commerdal has the place by
an unanimous vote.
The Republicans of Allegheny county
will be happy to learn that they are, at
last, well rid of a print which, always
secretly their enemy, has ever been open
ly their most annoying embarrassment.
Thy have patiently forborne to disown
and denounce it, because of the general
conviction that, wherever the character of
the Commercial was known, It was wholly
without influence either for evil or for
good. But it has always been felt to
be in some sort an impediment to
the Republicanism to which it usually
clung, like a barnacle to the hull of some
noble ship. Oar Republicans have wish
ed themselves freed frOm it for years past.
and have never failed to disown it on all
suitable occasions. But still, so long as
Republicans rule the Nation, State, county
and city, It has still appeared to cling to
the party with the tenacity of death. Al-
ways hungry for some crumbs of official
patronage, it has not the confidence, nor
the patronage of Republicans in one soli•
NIT Federal, State, county or municipal
office. Always boring at Washington
or Harrisburg, or at home, for a share,
no matter how contemptible, of the nub-
lie patronage, it has been always
shown to the door, and shut out. We
have been afraid it i would never take
hint, and would have \ to be kicked out by an
exhausted patience. .et us be thankful that
its seat of honor seems to be at las
touched, and that within the past few
weeks, it has effectively mustered itself
out of the party. Its discharge-papers
have the proper N. B. warning our politi.
cal surgeons against its re-enlistment on
any pretext, by reason , of its hopelessly
incurable worthlessness. Should it offer
itself for readmission to our ranks, under
its preient management, it should be
drummed at once out of camp, to the tune
of that old march which precisely suits
its case
REPUBLICANS oF ALLEGHENY:
Your , primary meetings are to be held
on the last day of next week, and your
Conventions sit a few days later. Since
it is possible that the Weekly GAZETTE
-of to-day may be the last which some of
you may see, before your primary meet
ings are held, we think it proper to offer
a /few suggestions for your seasonable
consideration.
/Ist. You are requested by your Com
mittees to choose three sets of delegates,
to as many separate Conventions. In
two of these Conventions, the Judicial
and, the Legislative, there will be no
chance whatever for dickering or log.
rolling. In the third, the old facilities in
that regard are to be verymuch restricted.
You are to select, in all, six delegates
from each precinct. We urge upon you
the duty of a fall attendance at the meet-
Ingo, a frank and plain discussion about
candidates, and the choice of your best
I ,men to send to, the Tuesday Conven
tions.
2nd. Instruct your delegates to vote
for the beet men, in point, first, of integ
rity, second, of capacity, and third, of
faithful political services. There are a
host of candidates in the field; and they do
not all alike possess these qualitioations.
If, you are not satisfied with the names
thus far offered to your choice, loek
elsewhere. The county is large and
populous, and Republicanism has a very
large proportion of honest and capable
citizens to Its knaves or its fools. Neith
er you nor your delegates are limited to 1
the advertised candidates ; wherever you
can and a man who will honor the office,
instead of the offickonly honoring him,
he is the citizen whom you, and all of us,
want on the ticket. •
Brd. DiscoUntenance any combinations
between the friends of candidates for, the
different officvery tub stand on
its own botto mnuns should be
chosen as if it were the only name on our
ticket for October, and that ticket to
stand or fill upozi its merits for Integrity
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FRIDAY, NAY 21; 1869.
end Don't rely uponthe hon
est candidates carrying through the
Others who are not honest. One discred
itable selection is enough to damage the
largest ticket you can have. When you
hear any "arrangement" proposed at
your primary meetings, you may be sure
that there is some plan on foot which will
not be for the public good, and yciu &mild
frown upon it accordingly. .1,
4th. Every citizen may lawfully and
properly take any open and legitimate
means to secure a nomination. But
when, other things being equal, you see
a candidate or his friends feverishly anx- /
,
' ions to secure the delegated by unfair
means, or by any sort of snap-ju'llgment,
your prudent course is to let that man and
his friends alone, and select some one else.
4th. Pay especial attention to yhur Ju
dicial and Legislative delegates,k. and be
sure to have men who will faithfilily rep
resent your wishes. It is confespedly of
the utmost, importance that the Judges,
whom we nominate and elect, should be I
men of high legal attainments, gobd busi
ness capacity, correct habits, and of un
impeachable moral character. Ocir mem
bers of the Legislature in eitherlbranch
should be men who have settled princi
ples and honorable reputations. L They
should be not only spotless in cliiiracter,
but above any just suspicion. Ccindemn
no man because he may have beenkrilified
by his personal or political enemies, and,
on the other hand, be quite.sure that no
-stain justly attaches to his private or pub.
licrecord. Yciur political opponents ac-i
cuss you for having sometimes elected)
dishonest legislators. They will assail I
your nominees, be these whom they may,
with the same imputation. It behooves
you to take good care that every name on
your next ticket then be that ofit citizen
whose known • character defies all and
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assaults. If you have confidence in Aor
B, but are aware that some of your neigh
bor have not, remember that they have as
good a right to their opinions as You to
yours—and lay aside your preferences,
with their prejudices, and you can easily
agree upon men wholly unobjectiOuable
to any portion of the party. no
color to the slanders of the Demodracy;
-with their new Judas recruit, the isitts
burgh Commercial, but be sure that you
:take up good and true men,and then uphold
them against the world. Your 4omi
neeswill be assailed and blackene4 but
yOu will know them and defend them. In.
tegrity and capacity are the only siand
ards you need set up. Follow thesei and
you will not need to go to tlie Pittsburgh
Commercialloz\ its mercenary apprpVal.
That journal promises to bolt your tteket,
unless you meet its views. Let youti del
egates rebuke its dictatorial arrogance,
by their utter contempt for its threats.
The Republican standards of merit? are
good enough, without borrowing oihers
from thimpudent and venal print, !.and
the Republicans of Allegheny prefer its
open liolity to its damaging frlendAhip.
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EDITORS GAZETTE: I heard oaj the
streetayesterday, that Joseph Dilworth,
Esq., \of Oakland, would, if nominkted
by theißepublican Conventioh, accept the
candidacy for County Commissioner, and
devote the salary of the office, if elected,
to the Poor Fund of the county.
It is important to know whether this
rumor is true. If a man of Mr.
Dll
worth's business ability is willing toide:
vote his time to the seryice of the county,
it should be certainly and speedily knoWn.
We know not iiig of the truth of this
rumor, but we know it is in circulatlim.
Mr. DILWORTH, himself, can set the mat
ter at rest,' by stating what his purposes
are, in the premises.--(EDS. GAZETTE;
ashington Items.
The British Minister has returned fn?m
his visito the Pennsylvania coal-fields,
and, to.da had an interview with the Sec
retary of tate. Mr. Thornton expressed
his disbel ie f in the triple alliance story.;
t \i
The Pr sident has not yet determined
the route he will take this summer, nor
the point at which he will spend most of
the time which he has decided to devote
to the rest and recreation Allah he ho
much needs. He will attend the annual
Cadet Examination at West Point in
June, and may then go to Boston for'l a
short stay. He hopes to -spend a short
time in the West, and, If he finds his pub
lic duties will permit, he
_may yet decide
on a trip over the Pacific Railroad.
The rapid increase in the premium on
gold- has stimulated a certain class of
financial men not only to write to the
Secretary of the Treasury, but to come
on here and belabor him in person to re
consider his decision to carry out the
sinking fund'of 1862. Several sought an
interview for this purpose, but failed.
Mr. Boutwell is determined to adhere to
his policy, sand to sell gold and buy bonds
just so long as the condition of the Trees
ury justifies such a course, no matter
whether the premium of gold goes up or
down.
Commissioner Van A.ernam has direc l
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that in inture all applications for increaseof petitions under the • act of July 27th,
18E18, must be made out according to the
following form, which must be accom:
panted with the pension certificate: I 1
To the Commtsalener of Pensions: 1
Sin: Believing that I am entitled to
arrears of pension 'from the date of death 1
or discharge, as the case may be for — 7 -
company,. ----regiment,. case No. -----,
I hereby return my present pension cer
tificate with the request that a new certi-11
ficate may be issued to me and sent WI
[Here give name and address.]
The attention of sttorneyttand claim-I
ants is also called to the peremptory lan
guage of section 7 of the act in question.;
Tau story of more fighting with the
Indians on the frontier is discouragLug.
The dispatch does not show that the,
savages were the aggressors, although Wei
have had rumors that the Cheyennes were',
again 'about to take the warpath. We
have great fears that the men of the sword".
will be ahead of the Quakers ;in settling'
the terms of our intercourse for the sum
mar with these Indians. :
May 11, 1869.
D. N. *arm, Esq.—Dear Sir: The
undersigned citizens of Allegheny county
hereby ask you to permit your name to
be sabmitted to the Nominating Conven
tion for a place on the neat Legislative
ticket.
i
Believing the time has come when the
RepubliCan party should present - the
names of men both honest and capable,
we hope you will give us a favorable
answer. . Yours, &c., -
John D.an,; C. C. Boyle,
John Thompson, Robert H. Davis,
4. P. Emmet, . James Marshall,
T.• H. Nelvia; ) ills C: Thorn.
R. M. Macey, James M'Cutcheon,
J. C. Po'ter, J. H. Orr,
Wm. Ilarbaugh. John Brown, Jr.,
Edward Groetzinger, J. N Davidson, '
F. .Holmes, D. Macferron,
James Allison, W. Miller, •
Dunlap & Lua •• an, R. D. Cochran.
B. C...McMasttrs. James M. Carr,
H. P. bchwarlz. , Flvnry Gerwig,
G. Eisen bets, Peter Dysert,
Henry Pratt, • J. blairoffin,
Thos. Chantier, ; James McAuley,
H. D. Goldman, James M. stoner,
T. H. Kiages. Jas- Collard.
Rebt. P. Nevin, . C. Miller,
W. H. Slack. Thos. L • Shields, '
S.F. Rankin, C. Fleming,
John C. Cosin, John McMillen,
J. Sharp McDonald; EL B. Goff.
W. F. Murray, B. C. Christy. .
G.H. Chris , y Baldwin. J. W F. ta lute,
Columbus Coleman, J. A. Quay,
John Gregg, • S. A. Chamberlin. ,
John Irwin, Jr., J. Boolver, Jr.,
C. J. Agnew,' D. R. Ml&ler.
SEWICKLEY, May 19th, 1869.
To Messrs. John Dean, C. C. Boyle John
Thompson, J. P. Kramer and ot hers.
GENTLEMEN: Your flattering request
to allow my name to be presented to the
Republican nominating Convention, as a
candidate for the Legislature, was re
ceived last evening. While I have no
ambition to serve in such a position, still,
if you think the use of my name will sub
serve any public interest, you are welcome
to use it in the behalf mentioned, and if
your kindly sentiments should be enter
tained by the Convention, and I should
be nominated and elected, I will try and
not disappoint your expectations. Very
respectfully yours, D. N. WarrE.
The - Alabama Question in England.
The-London correspondent of the New
York Tribune says:
The irritation caused by Mr. Sumner's
speech goes on increasing instead of di
minishing, as I hoped it might after a
little reflection. I have already described
it as extending through all classes, turn
ing old friendship into ill-will, and uniting
those who were for us and those who
were against us in one common purpose of
resistance to the demands supposed to be
made by Mr. Sumner. With a good deal
Of reluctance, and with some qualifies-
Lions, I said we had few friends left, if
approval or even toleration of Mr. Sum
ner'a speech was to be the condition of
friendship. With a good deal more
reluctance, but without any qualifi
cation. I say to-day that so far
.as I
know we have not, in that sense, a single
friend in England. Of course I do not
mean that men long conspicuous fortheir
sympathy with us have on a sudden be
come enemies, or that they recant any
thing they ever said' on our side. But
they dissent wholly from Mr. Surnner's
statement of the American claims and
grievances. They find fault with the
tone of the speech, and the extent of his
demands. In more than one particular
they are misled, or some of them are, by
the misrepresentations of the London pa
pers, ell of which make Mr. Sumner say
some things which he clearly does not
say. Comment on the speech continues
daily, in the press and everywhere else,
and while there is a difference in
the degree of resentment expressed
In different quarters the agree
ment of opinion is practically unani
mous. England will fight rather
than yield to the claims made or
indicated in this speech. She will fight
rather than even negotiate on any such
basis. If Mr. Motley's instructions cover
anything like the ground taken by Mr.
Sumner, he will be met by a point blank
refusal to consider his proposals. • At this
moment I doubt whether any proposals
whatever would be listened to. I popu
lar,feeling counts for anything )in the
Foreign office; they would be Simply
scouted. Of course, I don't mean that
Mr. Motley is likely to be received with
Incivility: The most furious would greet
him with politeness enough, but all par
ties will resist with equal resolution an at
tempt to enter upon any negotiation
whiciLdoes not disavow, in fact if not in
terms, Mr. Sumner's authority to speak
for the American Government,
A COLORADO paper says : One of the
results, uaeful'to mankind, flowing from
the voyages of the e*pedition to the Ja
pan seas, was the i i eduction to knowl
edge of a great ocean stream, having its
course along the Asiatic coast and enter
ing through Behring Straits into the Arc
tic sea, which surrounds America on the
north.
Silas Bent has illustrated, in a memor
ial to the ,Geographical Society of New
York, the continuous flow of this warm
current over the locality, of the North
Pole, in a circuit outside of the ice fields.
A vessel properly equipped at Sitka, in
Alaska, starting there and sailing with
this current, may pass in a North Polo it
self and over on to the northern shore of
Europe or Siberia and reach New York.
The way to surmount an insuperable
physical- difficulty, is to go around it.
The-results of one hundred and fifty
voyages to solve the mystery of the. Po
lar Seas is a shining illustration of the
burlesque of attempting to travel through
the ice and against the current—sailing
two miles ahead whilst the current is
three miles in the rear. The way never
to reach the North Pole is , then to keep
up this burlesque for another century.
In the Meantime let Silas Bent ' be put
on the trail which he has blazed out, and
we Will ihrnish him • Ith tough and reli
able companions Colorado.
THE Benevolent flu -1 . ty of churches
in Boston is doing an extensive and use
ful work. Five cha . le and eight mis.
sionaries are maintained at an annual
ec t o
cost of $15,000. In ad tion to preaching,
Sunday schools and day and evening
schools are maintain in the chapels.
In some of these schoo French, algebra
mechanical drawing, k-keeping, bat. '
any and
whophysiology are taught, so that
those are compelled to work during
the day can have excellent teaching in
the higher branches of education by con.
/meting themselvei with these evening
schools, free of expense. , The Fraternity ,
ambracesall the Unitmian churches in
that city, and is managed, by delegates
from aft thew churches, Including the
A CALL
Direct Shipment of Grain to Europe—
The Cattle Trade—The Coming Prize
Fight—Trial of Capt. Donaldson, of
the Great Republic.
CCorrespandence of the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
Sr. Lours, May 18th, 1869.
The movement which centres in this
city forthe direct shipment of grain to
the sea board and Em ope by way of the
Mississippi river and Gulf, is already ex
hibiting favorable results. Its feasibility
was not hard toshow on paper, or to dem
onstrate by arrays of figures the compare
tive advantages of this route over the best
artificial channels. But capital is so coy
towards untried enterprises, and the lake
and the canal route has so long controlled
the grain trade of the Northwest, that it
required unusual daring for St. Louis to
make the attempt. It was hardly to be
expected it would be a complete success
from the outset, butthe results have been
eqdal to the most sanguine anticipations.
Private dispatches announce the arrival
in Liverpool of the first direct shipment
by the bark John Geddes, twenty.six days
from New Orleans. This is wheat from
Dubuque, and the entire freight charges
to Liverpool are less than forty cents per
bushel—a saving of twenty cents in what
they would have been from Chicago to
Liverpool via the Lakes and New York,
to say nothing of the gain in time.
The advantages of this route are in
deed so apparent that the wonder is it has
not been adopted earlier. Experience,
however, as St. Louis ought to know by
this time, has shown that natural advan
tages do not always win the day, when
combatted by pluck and enterprise. The
champion belt has not only to bc won by
hard knocks, but to be maintained by
harder ones. A check isn't a check.mate
by any means.
Our people are so elated by their success
in drawing off from Chicago what prom
ises to be a big proportion of her $73,-
000,000 worth of grain trade, that they
now propose to attack her on the other
flank, and by the establishment .of a
Union Stock Yard divert the beef trade
from that market. There was a meeting
at the Southern Hotel, Saturday evening,
the 14th inst., at which this subject was
discussed, but no conclusion arrived at.
It appears, per statements of one of the
speakers, that the value of cattle passed
through Chicago stock yards last year
was not less than $65,000,000, a large part
of which legitimately belongs to St. Louis,
the cattle being raised in this State, and
the business actually drawn away from
here by the want of proper facilities for
handling.
Speaking of the champion belt reminds
me that Mike McCook is training himself
for his coming fight with Allen. Know
ing ones- say Allen will win, as the
champion has got fat and lazy, and too
confident in his own power to train as he
ought to. Well, Rome fell at last, and
why shouldn't he ?
Capt. Donaldson of the steamer Great
Republic,was yeslerday arraigned for
the secod time for the murder of a col
ored man, a hand on his boat, something
like a year aro. Heretofore the trial has
been prevented by the absence of import
ant witnesses. Donaldson pleads not
guilty. He will be defended by able
counsel, and the trial will be of unusual
interest, increased, perhaps, by the cir
cumstance that the time honored privilege
of walloping and killing a nigger .is at
stake. That a steamboat man ghould be
even arraigned for such an offence com
mitted on the Mississippi river is an event
in history.
- Weather cold, with much rain. Fires,
which we were very comfortable without
during part of April, are •indispensable
now. HITTY MAGUIRE..
MECHANICAL _ MIBIACAL APPLI..
There are certain phases of disease, and cer
tain diseased conditions of the human system.
whirl proceed from displaceMent and mai-posi
tion of some of the various organs of the human
body. These are not remediable by the usual
and ordinary methods need for the cure of ether
ailments: but require some mechanical stay or
support to maintain the parts In position until
they are healed, Prominent among these may'
be classed a displacement collect hertua,'or rup
ture, which is a protrusion of part of the bowel,
and which must be returned and kept to its plaice
by some outward support wh'cn should be Druii
erly adjusted la order to secure immunity from
inconvenience and danger. The prevalence of
this condition is now very common and should
be attended to. Immediately on its appearance,
not only because Of the present inconveniende
which its produces, but also inconsequence of the
usual danger of strangulation which Ls rarely
remedied but by &surgical operation.
Varicose veins in the legs and viaricocele , are
other forms of structural changes whim need
Immediate and scientillc outward support, In or
der to afford relief or effect a cure. Each of
these coaditiona are now as much within the pale
Of successful treatment as any of the other dis
eases to which mankind are liable.
Stooped shoulders may be cured at onc 3 by the
use of my Shoulder Braces, which not only main
'Wu the body lean erect position, but at the same
time enlarge its capacity, and allow free and ,
full expansion to the lurg., always a necessary
condition to a healthy and pet feet use of the pul
monary organs.
There are hundreds of females who would dud
great benefit front wearing these I bouleer brsces
as they are so constructed as to take all the drag.
ging weight from the back or spine and suspend
the clothing from the shoulders. those who use
my shoulder braces need not wear suspenders, as
they answer ,he double purpose of shou.der braCe
and suspenders; in tact they are the best sue.
penders ever Invented. Sold and applied at
DE..YdER'S NEW MEDICINE STORE,
NO. 187 LIBERTY BENET. rwo Loom
FROM ST. CLAIR : CUNuULTATION ROOMS,
NU. 180 PENN STREET, ER031 . 10 A. M.
UNTIL 4 , P. M. AT THE STORE FROM 410
6 P. M., AbD O TO 9 AT NIGHT.
A HOUSEHOLD ELIXIR ADAPTED
TO ALL CLIMATES.
It would be a happy thing Air the world If all
the excitants at present used in the practice of
medicine could be swept out of existence, and
HOSTNTFICII,B STOMACH BITTNEB 'substitu
ted In their place. There Is 'a probability ; too,
that this desirable substitution may one day be
accomplished. Certain it Is, that the GIZA?
TROZTABLZ TONIC is gradually displacing them,
and that the confidence of the people in its sani
tary and saving properties increases with every
passing year. "Figures that cannot lie" show
this to be the het. No mednlnal preparation
enioys the like popularity among all classes and
conditions In every section of the country. As
an appetizer, &general invlgorant, a remedy tor
Indigestlon,a cure for Intermittent and remittent
fevers, a general cathartic, a specific for latu
lency and sour stomach, k gentle diuretic, a ner
vine, a blood depurent, a specific fbr sick head •
ache, a mild anodyne, and, above all, as & PRO.
.TZCTION AGAINST pPIDSMIC6. It le unquestiona
bly the STANDARD NADICINZ of the whole 'United
elates. In the towns• sad cities it Is literally a
HOttillnorto STAps.E. Mothers believe in It.
They And it a "present help . in time of trouble"
--•& safe and pleasant remedy for the .various ail
ments to which their sex , is exclusively 'siblect.
Men belleire in it. bemires° it refreshes and hi
'elgorates the body and mind. and tonts'both
withont ; •
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~"ts r~```ps`.r:
LETTER _PEON sr. LOUIS.
ANCES.